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RSVP - Afropop's Spring Benefit Party & Peabody Award Celebration!
Date and time
Location
Private Residence of Joel Bluestein
245 7th Avenue, Apt 8A (btwn 24th & 25th Streets) New York, NY 10001-7301Refund Policy
Description
Join Afropop Worldwide and Joel Bluestein for Afropop’s Spring Benefit Party
& Celebration for Receiving Peabody Award!
ON APRIL 16TH AFROPOP RECEIVED A PEABODY AWARD FOR OUR BODY OF WORK SPANNING 27 YEARS!
Music by Banning Eyre and the group Timbila
Friday, May 1, 7 pm until...
This event is a benefit to support Afropop Worldwide
Additional gifts are welcomed and appreciated!
Funds raised will support Afropop Worldwide’s ongoing work to organize, digitize, catalogue, and develop our massive media archive, an irreplaceable resource representing 30 years of research in Africa and its many diasporas. See the story here: AfropopPeabody
Timbila reinvents some of the most beautiful music traditions of southern Africa, with an East Village edge. You will definitely be in the mood for dancing and trancing!
Banning will also introduce his brand new book Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music that Made Zimbabwe (Duke University Press). It’s a story that goes all the way back to Afropop’s earliest field work there in the 1980’s, and continues in today’s headlines. (The very first copies of the book are expected to be available that night.)
The event will take place in the beautiful private home of musician and philanthropist Joel Bluestein. Your ticket comes with tasty bites and refreshments. To mark the honor of receiving the Peabody Award, share a special toast with us!
Tickets $75/person
Guarantee your place by getting a ticket in advance on EventBrite
You may also pay at the door with cash, credit card, or check (made out to "Afropop Worldwide")
Afropop Worldwide is a registered 501(c)(3) organization and gifts may be tax deductible.
If you have questions, contact Ivanna at Afropop at (718) 398-2733 or ivanna@afropop.org